Jason Eppink and Larissa Hayden: Challenge of the Month Winners!
Revel is thrilled to introduce the winner of its first Challenge of The Month contest, a competition where we feature new, awesome, challenges, and the person (or people) behind them. In addition to being featured on the Revel blog, Challenge of the Month winners receive a $500 prize, while still remaining eligible for our $5,000 grand prize and two $2,500 runner-up prizes.
This month’s winners are Jason Eppink and Larissa Hayden, whose challenge Play by the Rules, is for two or more players:
One player is deemed the Rule-Maker and the others are Rule-Abiders. The Rule Maker invents a rule that all players must follow. For example, the players must only cross streets when hopping on one leg. From there, the Rule-Abiders disperse to collect a Convert: a person who is not already part of the game and who agrees to follow the invented rule (e.g. to cross the street once while hopping on on leg). The Rule-Abider who acquires the Convert becomes the Rule-Maker and invents the next rule for all players.
Why we like Jason’s and Larissa’s challenge:
“Play by the Rules” clearly establishes relationships between players by setting up the separate roles of “Rule Maker” and “Rule Abiders,” and all players have their own clear objectives. We also like how the challenge invites new people to come and play. And the process of the Rule-Abider becoming the new Rule-Maker has a nice beginning, middle, and end structure.
Jason and Larissa were kind enough to to take some time to say hello, and to tell Citizen Logistics a little about their inspirations for their awesome challenge:
CL: Hi Guys! What do you do when you’re not writing awesome challenges?
Larissa: I’m an Engagement Planner, which is about creating strategies for branded experiences and not about weddings.
Jason: I’m the Assistant Curator of Digital Media at the Museum of the Moving Image.
CL: What’s something that you’ve always wanted to do, but haven’t gotten the chance to do yet?
Larissa: “I keep trying to learn new skills and then never finish them! Oh man I just remembered I have a harmonica.”
Jason: Yikes. Everything I haven’t already done! This is an existential crisis in a question. Next!
CL: What’s the most awesome thing you’ve ever done in public space?
Larissa: Jason- you probably have me beat for making things in public spaces. BUT I was thinking about awesome things that I’ve participated in public spaces and my favorite might involve riding the T in Boston late on Friday nights. Inevitable, someone would start singing something like “Don’t Stop Believing” or “The Captain Planet ThemeSong” and this entire train full of strangers would immediately join in. Every. Friday. Night.
Jason: I’ve done a lot of wacky stuff in public space - posting prank signs, turning video billboards into art, building an unauthorized bridge, producing an interactive theater experience with unwitting stars - but right now I’m stoked on an anti-advertising project I’m working on which will help eliminate corporate graffiti and consumption imperatives in public visual spaces. I like singing on the subway, too.
Thanks for your awesome challenge, Jason and Larissa! And don’t forget, our deadline for September’s Challenge of the Month is midnight (PST) on September 1st, so send in your challenges today!
